What is "poppler"

Poppler may refer to:

• "Popplers", a fictional fast food featured in the " The Problem with Popplers" episode of the television series Futurama. In that episode it is discovered that Popplers are actually the offspring of a somewhat intelligent and wrathful species of creature from Omicron Persei 8 who then visit Earth to exact revenge for the consumption of their young.
• Poppler (software), PDF rendering library

Poppler is a free software utility library for rendering Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Its development is supported by freedesktop.org. It is commonly used on Linux systems, and is used by the PDF viewers of the open source GNOME and KDE desktop environments.

The project was started by Kristian Høgsberg with two goals: to provide PDF rendering functionality as a shared library for centralizing maintenance effort, and to go beyond the goals of Xpdf, and integrate with functionality provided by modern operating systems.

As of the version 0.18 release in 2011, the poppler library represents a complete implementation of ISO 32000-1, the PDF format standard, and is the first major free PDF library to support its forms (only Acroforms but not full XFA forms) and annotations features.

Poppler is a fork of Xpdf-3.0, a PDF file viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC.

The name Poppler comes from the animated series Futurama episode The Problem with Popplers.